The Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC): An Open Tool and Reproducible Pipeline for Analyzing Social Group Discourse at Scale

arXiv:2609.27059 · cs.CL, cs.SI · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.SI

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/BabakHemmatian/Illinois_Social_Attitudes

Project page: https://isaac.psychology.illinois.edu

Terminology

• Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus — 118× in this paper
• Accuracy — 35× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 23× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Calibration — 14× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Benchmark — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• F1 Score — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 2× in this paper
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sparsity — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Affordance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• External Validation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Modular Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Structural Integrity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• EmoBERTa: Speaker-Aware Emotion Recognition in Conversation with RoBERTa
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
• The Moral Foundations Reddit Corpus

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